Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed at encouraging a deeper understanding of history and a greater appreciation ...

Ancient Greek mythology and art depict lions. Did lions once live in Greece? Larry Rideout | Boston Yes! Lions have a huge historic range. Evidence has been found that as far back as the ...

Dimitris Plantzos is a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the co-director of the Argos Orestikon Excavation Project in Kastoria, ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... of Dreams—written by the Greek author Artemidorus ...

Because of its position on a peninsula between two ancient fortresses, Corfu Town has played an important role in Greek history since ... and the Museum of Asian Art), and the famous Church ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...

 Extensively eroded and badly damaged, the artwork was secured at that time. American Boy is inspired by the stylized aesthetic ancient art of the Archaic Greek period. It was intended to embody the ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

"Daedalus, the mythical craftsman … represents, as his name allows, artistic and technological advancement, creativity and ...

A momentous exhibition at the Prado Museum reunites all but one of the canvases El Greco painted for the Spanish church where ...

The eastern Basalt Desert was a home of a “very intensive” Christian graffiti production during first three centuries AD. Syrian-Jordanian desert was the frontier between the Roman Empire and ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...